By averting the most serious risks to consumer health, the EU’s rapid alert system for food and feed (RASFF) helped ensure the safety of food last year in Europe, according to the annual report published by the Commission on Tuesday 25 September.
Of the 3,832 risk notifications, 942 were alerts of serious risks to health, giving rise to measures including recall, withdrawal and destruction of suspect products.
The type of risk mostly concerned salmonella in poultry meat as the...